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Are women's issues. another issue is health care. we seem to be going backward instead of forward. all issues i set forth will be important to women voters, period. >> michelle goldberg, on the heels of that, let me point out some of the economic positions mitt romney has embraced might hurt him with women. bloomberg news point out that the paul ryan budget, for example, has major red flags for a lot of women. here are some examples. two-thirds of adult recipients, female. the plan would cut funding for pell grants. two-thirds of college students who get those, female. it would get funds for m...

>> -- than by the very real threats to their livelihood that a romney presidency would present. that is so much more insulting to women voters that anything hilary rosen said. there's a reason that mitt romney has lost the women's vote in every general election that he's ever run. sometimes very substantially. he was creamed by ted kennedy in 1994. and it's because when women get a look at his economic policies, because social issues weren't really an issue in those earlier races because he was still pro choice, they recoil. >> in this case, michelle bernard, i think the social issues are a fa...

Do you think that the trayvon martin case is going to cause a re-examination, a serious re-examination of stand your ground if those states across the country that now have it on their books? >> i hope so. mayor bloomberg has called to are that. it's interesting on the stand your ground legislation. every police group in pennsylvania and the pennsylvania district attorney's association, made up of 50 republican d.a.s and 17 democratic d.a.s all urged me to veto it. why don't we listen to law enforcement, mr. gottlieb? they're telling us that we have to do something to stop gun violence. >> mr....

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> lost in the firestorm where the deeper issues that many female voters care about. mitt romney still has a lot of grounded to go to make up after the bruising primary that only hurt his image among women. michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy. michelle goldberg is a contributing write for "newsweek" and the daily beast. this issue is so hot that the romney team tried to keep the controversy surrounding hilary rosen's comments going for yet another day. both romneys talked about not surprisingly, the subject o...

Gun rights groups supported. and he also supported the ban on assault rifle ban and supported the brady gun law. here is what he said. >> my position on guns is the position i have had for a long, long time, and that is position is that i don't line up 100% with the nra. i don't see eye to eye with the nra in every issue. >> and then of course, there was this description by governor romney of his hunting issue. let's watch. >> i'm not a big game hunter, i've made it very clear, i've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, and small varmints if you will. i began when i was 15 or so, and have hu...